Likewise I crossed the Alps a few times lately. I don't remember about the roads, but the hitch trails were very clean indeed. (Didn't feel very thirst-inducing, the Southern part of the Alps isn't concerned by the draught they experience in Switzerland). Edit: (I understand more what you were sayin...

Calling this day Bastille Day is factually true; it is just not how people from my country name it. Also most of us aren't aware of that, but the main thing to be "celebrating" about would be the lynching of soldiers who had no say about French politics (and some of them were from Switzerl...

It's a bit unorthodox to count years from Bastille Day, but you do you I guess. It is funny how English speakers refer to the French national day as Bastille Day. The English Wikipedia even says that we celebrate the taking down of that fortress, which happened on a 14th of July. On paper, what we ...

Unless the UK manages (and wants) some deal with the EU about that, I suppose they will have to deal with individual countries like any non-EU citizens. Today someone from say Brazil or Marocco working in France cannot automatically work in Italy or in Germany: these are distinct countries regarding...

This is a matter of culture; especially the part about people staying at work as long as they boss/team leader isn't leaving (and I suppose they do a lot of useless stuff to occupy that waiting). Hopefully having laws actually consider that situation (and possibly a few trials happening) should move...

https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/south-korea-officially-drops-its-maximum-workweek-to-52-hours Under the law, which slashed the maximum weekly work hours to 52 from 68, workers in South Korea will be allowed to work 40 hours and an additional 12 hours of overtime. Those who make their emp...

I am watching Peaky Blinders. Whenever the characters speak of ww1, they say "France" when "the war" would be as explicit (and more straightforward). I don't think that is strange when talking about people who died in France, or things that happened in France, but sentences like ...

Winter Voices is an RPG with turn-based combats that are only "defensive". That is, you can't really harm your opponents, and are supposed to reach goals such as reaching an escape zone or survive for N turns. In this game you play a young woman who has just lost her father and has to deal...

For some reason I can't access that article today, weird error. Anyway I wanted to check it again to see if it mentioned the bobcat's size or weight? Wikipedia gives a range of 47-125cm long, and 6-18kg in weight. Which ranges from not much bigger than a domestic cat, to about half the size of a ti...

A world where theres a large permanently disadvantaged underclass, mostly. One where a plethora of policies are in place which ostensibly help the underclasses but are actually designed to sabotage them in one way or another to ensure they stay in the underclass. For instance, a welfare system with...

- Don't Delta have a duty to inform passengers that they need to dispose of apples on the plane and not carry them into the US? Should be right there on the packaging if nothing else. Seems pretty irresponsible to hand out stuff on a flight that could cause passengers to end up with massive fines. ...

Did they really need to use force and handcuffs? Wouldn't they be able to tell the "intruders" that "now you get out" (and escalate if that does not happen)? Another article says they asked and the two people allegedly refused. https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/14/us/philadelphia-poli...

One can also find a few articles* from 2003 about that guy named Philippe Rivere who worked for Air France and made a joke about his shoes in New York. * alas, google insists that I am only interested in French language results such as this one . Of course it may have made the news here mostly becau...

The problem with that, is that it only works well if the group you're ridiculing has very little power or support. Lack of power is easy to ridicule, whether it's Nazis or a more worthwhile group. Basically, it's hard to laugh at torch marches when stuff actually gets torched at night (let alone in...

To be honest I actually did parse that phrase as a noun phrase made of two nouns that I would have to look up. Obviously it is some organisation responsible for handling disputes, which I assume to be legal ones.

Incidentally, I am pretty sure this is taught in French high schools. Or was when I was there. Also what people have been taught and what they actually remember may differ (to be fair to British teachers).